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A Taste of Teamwork™| Teamwork Training Activity
A Taste of Teamwork™| Teamwork Training Activity
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5 reviews
A great test of teamwork skills! Things could go badly wrong at Fawlty's Bakery, but if teams get their act together they can save the day!
Teamwork skills
Organisation strategies / devising a process
Attention to detail
Inter-team co-operation
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$765.00
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Product details
- Type Training Activity
- Timing 1 hour + debrief
- Use Face-to-Face
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 6
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required No
- Printer Required No
- Supply Format Hard Copy
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Northgate says...
"Planning a process is everything! Will teams get themselves organised and work together to accurately process all the orders? Great fun, full of learning - and easy to facilitate!"
- Teamwork skills
- Organisation strategies / devising a process
- Attention to detail
- Inter-team co-operation
- Free and open communication
- The importance of working as one big team
- Meeting a deadline
Ideally suited to:
Testing inter-team cooperation, thinking before acting and looking at having a process to ensure efficiency.
In this teamwork training activity, A Taste of Teamwork, two teams jointly represent the "Packing & Despatch Department" of a bakery supplying pies to retail outlets. (If running it with 13-24 delegates, you would have x2 lots of two teams - making four teams in total). The task involves ordering different kinds of pies from the baking department, processing customer orders, invoicing and packing up the orders, ready for despatch. Sounds easy
But carrying it out - on time and accurately - is a bit of a challenge! Things can so easily be overlooked, misinterpreted or mixed up. What’s needed is an overall process, clear communication, inbuilt checks and balances and everyone on board! Great fun, full of learning - and easy to facilitate.
- Introduce the training activity (optional PowerPoint included) and organise the group into two or four teams (depending on your numbers).
- Issue the Team Briefs and allow delegates to study their briefs.
- Prepare the Order Cards (by removing the five 'Late Order' cards and after 10 minutes issue a pile of 10 Order Cards to each team.
- Issue the other boxes to one team; the invoices forms to the other.
- Observe teams in action but do not get involved in their interaction.
- Stand by to 'bake' pies on request.
- At the 40 minute point issue the five 'Late Order' cards and an Analysis Form to each team.
- At the 60 minute point the delivery van arrives to collect the orders.
- Check the boxes and invoices (the left-over pies will give you a quick indication of teams' accuracy!)
- Conduct the debrief with the aid of the Trainer's Notes & PowerPoint.
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
- Trainer’s Notes
- Trainer's PowerPoint
- Team 1 Briefs
- Team 2 Briefs
- Sets of Order Cards
- Post-It Style Pads
- Pie Boxes
- Plastic ‘Pies’
- Bakers' Hats
- Trainer’s Record
- Invoice Forms
- Analysis Forms
This activity is for face-to-face classroom use. It is supplied as a hard copy pack and the digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
For further information on our licence terms, please contact us. We are here to assist you in enhancing your training initiatives and ensuring a seamless and hassle-free licensing experience.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Niki Fincham, Group Learning & Development Manager, RBH Hospitality Management I have used 'A Taste of Teamwork!' as our pre-opening training for years and have people who still remember it years later!
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Kate Bevins, Learning & Development Partner, Samworth Brothers Ltd I have ordered a couple of activities recently ('A Taste of Teamwork' and 'Escape from the Labyrinth!') and am really enjoying starting to rebuild a library of ‘stuff’ to make a difference!
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Jon Davies, Managing Director, Get the Edge UK Training and Consultancy We recently ran 'A Taste of Teamwork' with one of our clients: it proved to be great fun with a very useful debrief session cementing the learning for all who participated.
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HR Manager, Legal & General A Taste of Teamwork' training activity provides good insights into people's ability to collaborate, prioritise, manage, coach, influence and communicate. Very easy to run.
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